YouTube

To me, YouTube is an enigma of sorts or what we might call a two edged sword. There are so many excellent video resources on YouTube that could be used to support instruction and students love accessing YouTube. In fact, many of my students will spend hours on YouTube if you let them. This would be the other edge of the sword.

Normally YouTube is blocked at our school, but sometime last school year there was a period of time where our internet filters went down and our students had access to YouTube. My classroom is a computer lab and I teach computer classes, so naturally when word got out that the filter went down all YouTube hell broke loose. I had the darndest time keeping my students out of YouTube and on task! I even had the problem of some students accessing inappropriate videos promoting such things as gang violence,ultimate fighting, and all things bloody-gory-mess.

So I ask, "How do we harness this YouTube power for the educational good of mankind?" I have yet to come up with an answer.